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Description: Marshall McLuhan in th early 1970's
Direct source: http://home.debitel.net/user/RMittelstaedt/McL/McLuhan.html
Source: cropped from http://www.personal.dundee.ac.uk/~rjcurran/mcluhan.jpg
Copyright: Horst Ehricht (as provided in caption of non-cropped version)

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[edit] Rationale of fair use for Popular culture studies

The image MarshallMcLuhan.gif is being linked here; though the picture is originally copyright, I (TreveX^talk 00:45, 22 September 2005 (UTC)) feel it is covered by fair use because:

The image is important to the article, depicting a figure highly influential in cultural studies who is discussed in the article.
This is an image of an important academic and cannot be reproduced by any other means. There are no known public domain or free-use images of this individual.
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current	00:45, 22 September 2005	205×187 (17 KB)	TreveX (Talk \| contribs)	(Marshall McLuhan Source: [http://home.debitel.net/user/RMittelstaedt/McL/McLuhan.html] ==Rationale of fair use for Popular culture studies== The image RolandBarthes.jpg is being linked here; though the picture is originally copyright, I (~~~~) f)